/lit/ - Literature

If 2001: A Space Odyssey can be considered art, if the Mona Lisa can be considered art, if Beethoven's 5th Symphony can be considered art, if Homer's Odyssey can be considered art, then by gosh golly I think that a very limited number of video games may also fall into this impossible-to-define category of "art".

It is my personal opinion that System Shock 2 is the closest video games ever went to being considered "art", whatever that really means. It had a truly interesting and original story, with some of the greatest presentation ever to be on a screen, while keeping the gameplay fun (which, in the end, is the most important goal of a video game). Where books use imagery to allow the audience's imagination to transport them into the place of the story, games use graphics and sound. In that respect, I believe System Shock 2 excelled excellently at immersing the player inside its world and terrifying them thereby.